Re: Suggestion: apt-network

[Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>]

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:55:38PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:
> 
> > Would it be useful to have some way for apt machines to
> > communicate? For example, a method in sources.list giving the
> > address of some other Debian machine, so when my apt wants to
> > fetch some package, it first queries all other Debian machines
> > on the local net if someone already got that one in their caches?
> 
> It's called 'nfs'. Use it to mount a common /var/cache/apt/archives on all
> the machines and APT will do the right thing

Will it? I'd have guessed it would fail in an utterly ugly
fashion. Well, if it's possible then fine :-)

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